ViXS® Systems Inc. today announced a powerful new home
media gateway platform, Forge, developed in partnership with Unihan,
Lantiq and Morega™ Systems, Inc. Forge combines high speed
internet access, digital voice services, and wireless delivery of
premium video, pictures and music to smartphones, tablets, laptops, and
connected TVs throughout the home and beyond. The platform includes the
world’s leading media transcoding system-on-chip (SoC), a VDSL broadband
modem, diverse I/O options, and innovative media management software to
create a highly flexible architecture at an unprecedented low cost point.

With Forge, pay television service providers finally have an affordable
option for high-volume deployments that will fundamentally change the
way consumers access content and services. The key features of Forge are:

Complete turnkey solution designed with Unihan’s strong R&D and
manufacturing expertise that enables fast time to market for a
cost-effective, high-volume deployment

Lantiq’s market proven XWAY™ VRX288 VDSL Gateway platform

Voice services supported by Lantiq’s SLIC™ and ISDN devices

Comprehensive media mobility software from Morega Systems for
presenting user-owned and premium content in a consistent interface
across iOS, MacOS, Android and Windows devices, both inside the home
as well as remotely

Media streaming using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA®),
and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

Optional built-in storage so that consumers can store, access and
share their digital content both within their home and remotely

Optional targeted advertising solution using Morega software to
replace pre-roll, post-roll and interstitial advertisements according
to user analytics and statistics

Forge will be demonstrated at the 2013 International CES Show (Jan.
8-11) in the ViXS Systems Booth MP25953, South Hall 2, as well as in the
Morega Product Suite at the Venetian.

“Forge is the optimal platform to answer consumer demands for content
mobility and a smart home network,” said Sally Daub, President and CEO
of ViXS Systems. “Our market leading XC4310 SoC enables real-time
processing and delivery of multiple concurrent streams of live content
and personal media. We are excited to collaborate with Unihan, Lantiq
and Morega to bring to market a complete system solution that is ready
for our customers to customize and deploy.”

“The strong R&D and manufacturing expertise of Unihan has quickly and
cost-effectively integrated ViXS, Lantiq and Morega technology to create
a unique and feature rich platform that meets the growing consumer
demands of high bandwidth broadband access, multi-screen media access
and media portability,” said Steve Huang, Corporate Vice President and
General Manager of Unihan Corporation. “This is an ideal solution that
service providers can launch quickly to attract new customers while
increasing satisfaction and retention of existing customers.”

“As broadband traffic will be more and more video dominated, there is a
growing need to upgrade traditional broadband gateways with video
processing and storage capabilities. We are proud that with the
partnership with ViXS, Unihan and Morega, we can demonstrate that the
Lantiq gateway platform is ready for media gateway applications. This
joint system solution will help operators to deploy value-added
services,” said Dirk Wieberneit, Lantiq Senior Vice President and
General Manager of the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Business Unit.

“From Morega’s perspective, this collaboration offers the service
provider community with a superior way to enable media mobility in and
out of the home,” said Buddy Snow, CEO, Morega. “Our software is
preferred by some of the largest media companies worldwide, and is
proven to help operators easily and quickly deploy these advanced media
services. Within the Forge platform, Morega’s high-performance software
ensures that all media are properly formatted and reliably reach the
designated client devices via wireless streaming or file downloads,
while preserving metadata and DRM. We also support advanced advertising
solutions. Morega software can be flexibly deployed in a variety of
multi-screen scenarios, and we are excited to show it at CES.”

About ViXS Systems Inc.

ViXS is the semiconductor pioneer in designing and developing
high-performance media solutions for the consumer electronics and video
service provider industries. With over 390 patents issued and pending
worldwide, ViXS has been recognized with a number of industry awards for
innovation. ViXS is the world leader in transcoder deployments with over
40 million shipments to date, and still growing.

ViXS has a comprehensive portfolio of products to meet the diverse needs
of the global media industry. Portfolio highlights include the most
advanced dense transcoder available for cloud-based solutions, as well
as SoC’s for home devices capable of doing the most simultaneous number
of HD streams in the industry. Moreover, ViXS is the only company to
have integrated transcoding and Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
technologies to create the lowest-cost media gateway capable of
delivering premium content to consumer IP devices, such as the iPad,
inside and outside of the home.

ViXS has three primary product lines: XCode, XCodePro and XConnex. The
XCode family of media processors range from stand-alone transcoding
chips to full SoC solutions, each capable of handling from one to four
simultaneous HD-to-HD transcodes. XCodePro products address the
professional enterprise market and are being deployed today for
cloud-based media streaming services. The XConnex product line is for
communications devices, including MoCA 1.1 and 2.0 solutions.
Additionally, ViXS customers are provided with a robust software
development kit known as Xtensiv.

ViXS is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with global operations and
offices in Europe, Asia and North America. For more information on ViXS,
visit our website: www.vixs.com.

VIXS™, the ViXS® logo, XCode®,
XCodePro™, XConnex™ and Xtensiv™ are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of ViXS. Other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

For further information: David Jones, Tel: (416) 646-2000, E-mail: djones@vixs.com

About Unihan Corporation

Unihan is an R&D oriented ODM company, focusing on product development &
manufacturing of Docsis- Cable Modem, Pay TV Set-Top-Box, DSL-based Home
Media Gateway & LCD-TV. Unihan is one member of Pegatron Group, which is
one of top DMS companies located in Taiwan with business covering
product lines of computing, communication and consumer. The category of
products includes Desk-top, Notebook PC, Tablet PC & Smart Phone.
Further information is available at http://www.pegatroncorp.com/

About Morega Systems

Morega Systems (www.morega.com)
is a proven provider of secure media mobility software solutions that
give service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers a better
way to wirelessly deliver valuable premium and personal media to any
consumption device, regardless of location. Morega creates a
high-performance media ecosystem by putting firmware in the media source
box (such as an IP gateway device), software in the client consumption
devices, and servers in the cloud. Working closely with the conditional
access and DRM systems, Morega ensures that media is securely delivered
via adaptive streaming or high-speed file transfer. Morega’s analytics
and statistics server tracks media consumption on client devices while
respecting consumer privacy, thus ideally enabling targeted advertising
just before delivery on personal devices.

About Lantiq

Lantiq offers a broad and innovative product portfolio for
next-generation networks and the digital home. The company specializes
in broadband communications encompassing analog, digital and
mixed-signal ICs along with comprehensive software suites. Lantiq is a
fabless company and its semiconductor solutions are deployed by major
carriers and in home networks in every region of the world. Further
information is available at: www.lantiq.com
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